Responding to Molefe's Anti-abortionism.
In his recent book, An African Ethics of Personhood and Bioethics: A Reflection on Abortion and Euthanasia (2020), South African philosopher Motsamai Molefe argues for the impermissibility of abortion on the grounds that a foetus possesses the potential for dignity, which he argues amounts to the po...
| Publicado en: | Theoria: A Journal of Social & Political Theory Vol. 72; no. 184; pp. 43 - 63 |
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Berghahn Books
Sep2025
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